** Dear everyone, we tried our best, but unfortunately, the PCAP Studio has decided to cancel the event, HOWEVER, we have decided to move it to space of FreiRäumchen in the Türkis Rosa Lila Villa (Linke Wienzeile 102, 1.stock). We wait for you in a more intimate space, with food and drinks!! **
A talk with Yuderkys Espinosa
As part of the dialogue within European Academies about the decolonization of knowledge and studies, the theorist Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso is invited to talk about her career within and outside the academy. In this presentation, Espinosa will share reflections about her experience that as a black Caribbean migrant subject she had overcome in academic spaces.
This talk will be useful for critical students and academics in the field of social sciences, and especially for those who work, or would like to work, with a decolonial, anti-colonial, and anti-racist feminist perspective. We would like to reflect…What does it mean to be a decolonial thinker and a decolonial artist in a western colonial space like the academy? Which are and how we can use the resources that we have to develop our practices in white predominantly space? What type of negotiations is necessary and/or meaningful in order to redirect our learning in a decolonial way?
The lecture is strongly recommended to Black, Indigenous and People of Color, latinxs, meztizes living in Europe. But we also welcome every student willing to work on self-criticism in relation to their individual position within the academy, the social context, and global geography.
Mariama Diallo will introduce the evening with her reflections and thoughts on her experience as an African woman in the Academy of Fine Arts.
We will end the evening with a performance of Moenani Sisters.
The event will be moderated by Lia Kastiyo-Espinósa.
Translation: Spanish and German to English
Event organized by Frauen*Referat, from the Student Union ÖH Universität Wien, in collaboration with PCAP Studio.
Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso is a writer, researcher, philosopher, professor and activist of Afro-Dominican origin. She is part of the Latin American Group of Studies, Training and Feminist Action (GLEFAS). Through her work, she explains the necessity of adopting a decolonial feminist perspective by reflecting on and confronting the hegemonic, eurocentric, racist and classist perspectives that are intertwined in the feminist movement. Without warning, she has become one of the fundamental referents of decolonial feminism in Abya Yala. Espinosa has also begun with the formation of a new feminist generation through the educative platform GLEFAS.
Mariama Diallo ist in Guinea geboren. 2011 hat Sie in Österreich Asyl angesucht. Als sie noch in Linz wohnt, hat sie in Maiz (Autonomes Zentrum von & für Migrantinnen) Alphabetisierungskurse für Frauen gegeben und selbst Kurse besucht, in Solarcity mit Kindern gearbeitet und war die erste Migrantin, die im Kulturverein Kama einen Kurs gehalten hat. Seit 2014 studiert sie an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Kontextuelle Malerei, Prof. Hans Scheirl. Sie ist eine Panafrikaniste. Sie kämpft für die afrikanische Würde, den Respekt für Afrikaner-innen und für die Souveränität Afrikas.
Moenani Sisters ist eine aufständische Bewegung von Frauen aus verschiedenen Teilen der Welt, Frauen, die unsere Botschaft zum Leben, zum Respekt und zur Liebe der Vielfalt durch den Tanz weitergeben. Es ist die Antwort auf die Suche nach Gemeinschaft, Brüderlichkeit, Liebe und Gegenseitigkeit und es ist der nicht-hegemoniale Tanz, der uns in dieser Schule der Frauen zusammengebracht hat. Jede Bewegung unseres Körpers teilt und spiegelt die Vielfalt des Seins und Seins eines jeden von uns wider, aber auch die Erinnerung, das Danken, das Prestige, die Resignation und die Sichtbarmachung der Geschichte der nicht-eurozentrischen Kulturen, die wie jede andere ihre Lebensphilosophie im Tanz widerspiegeln.
Lia Kastiyo-Spinósa was born by the Caribbean Sea, where Tainos and West African descendants have been resisting. In 2016 at the University of Buenos Aires she established publishing and layout design as her main profession. Since 2018 she lives and studies in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts. Her main media of production are photography, collage, and performance. She has also been engaged with activist collectives and projects like the Women’s Collective at The University of Vienna Student Union (Frauen*Referat) and the house LGTBIQ+ Türkis Rosa Lila Villa.
